Your Evening Jemmy

The honorable gentleman says that it is a government of force. If he means military force, the clause under consideration proves the contrary. There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all.

-- James Madison, Speech To The Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788.

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